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Meaning of regression


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  regression
      n 1: an abnormal state in which development has stopped
           prematurely [syn: {arrested development}, {fixation},
           {infantile fixation}, {regression}]
      2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from
         reality by assuming a more infantile state
      3: the relation between selected values of x and observed values
         of y (from which the most probable value of y can be
         predicted for any value of x) [syn: {regression}, {simple
         regression}, {regression toward the mean}, {statistical
         regression}]
      4: returning to a former state [syn: {regression}, {regress},
         {reversion}, {retrogression}, {retroversion}]


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